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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How, according to Eva, did girls act in Canada when talking about boys?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Kittenish.
(c) Bossy.
(d) Shy.

2. What could Eva NOT afford to do at Christmas when she was in college?
(a) Afford the trip home.
(b) Buy Christmas gifts for her Christian friends.
(c) To rent an apartment.
(d) To buy a car.

3. What did Eva's mother mean when she said that Eva was becoming "English?"
(a) She was learning the language too quickly.
(b) She was becoming "cold."
(c) She wanted to go to school in America.
(d) She didn't want to be seen with her mother.

4. What cartoon did Eva and her mother just not understand?
(a) The Time Magazine cartoon.
(b) The New Yorker cartoon.
(c) The television cartoons.
(d) The Vancouver Gazette cartoon.

5. After traveling to America, what did Eva declare was the capitol of the United States?
(a) Texas.
(b) Boston.
(c) New York.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eva's father settle into for work in Canada?

2. What story of success did Eva's father hear from a man who spoke Yiddish about a Polish Jew who came to Canada?

3. When Eva saw a black man on her travels to Vancouver, who did she think he looked like?

4. Who did the Wydra's stay with when they arrived in Vancouver?

5. What was Vancouver's shopping mecca?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Eva and her friends would see a foreign film in Poland, what questions would they ask about the characters in the film? How does this relate to Eva's life in Canada?

2. Once in Canada, how did Eva keep her privacy? What did she hold back? How was she careful in what she said about the difficulties that her family was facing?

3. Give an example of how the Wydra's became paralyzed by choices and how they made decisions?

4. How were Eva's views of communism different from her classmates?

5. In Eva's attempt at secrecy, what role did Mrs. Steiner play? Why did Eva place her is this position? What characteristics did Mrs. Steiner have that made Eva behave differently towards her?

6. How did Canada's work ethic affect Eva's father and his view of himself?

7. Why did Eva's father struggle so much once the family was living in Canada?

8. How did Eva see Mr. Rosenberg after the Wydra's had been in Canada for a bit? How did he change in Eva's eyes and why did she perceive him differently after a short time?

9. As Eva learned new words and expressions, why was she baffled by "You're welcome?"

10. What role did humor play in learning a new language for the Wydra's and especially Eva? What was it like for Eva to tell a joke? What did not translate from Polish to English?

(see the answer keys)

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